Marshall Everett - Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic: The Oceans Greatest Disaster: A Graphic and Thrilling Account of the Sinking of the Greatest Floating Palace Ever ... Down to Watery Graves More Than 1,500 Souls

THE OCEANS
GREATEST DISASTER

A Graphic and Thrilling Account of the Sinking of the Greatest Floating Palace Ever Built, Carrying Down to Watery Graves More Than 1,500 Souls

Giving Exciting Escapes from Death and Acts of Heroism not Equaled in Ancient or Modern Times, Told by

THE SURVIVORS

Including History of Icebergs, the Terror of the Seas, Wireless Telegraphy and Modern Shipbuilding

Edited by
MARSHALL EVERETT
The Great Descriptive Writer

O h, what a burial was here! Not as when one is borne from his home among weeping throngs and gently carried to the green fields, and laid peacefully beneath the turf & flowers. No priest stood to perform a burial service. It was an ocean grave. The mists alone shrouded the burial place. No spade prepared the grave. No sexton filled up the hallowed earth. Down, down they sank, and the quick returning waters smoothed out every ripple and left the sea as though it had not been!

The Guardian Angel of the sea pays
tribute to the martyred heroes.

T o those who by their arts and deeds followed in the footsteps of HIM who suffered on the Cross, and who now sleep in unmarked sepulchres of the sea. Greater love hath no man, than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend.

St. John, 15 Chap., 13 V.

T he disastrous collision, with an iceberg in mid-ocean, of the mighty ocean linerthe Titanicthe finest example of modern shipbuildingand the awful loss of 1,595 of the 2,340 passengers aboard, goes down easily in history as the greatest of ocean catastrophes.

The Titanic, a floating palace of luxury, the largest and finest steamship ever built, set forth on her maiden trip with the avowed purpose of following the shortest course at the highest possible speed. Her 2,340 passengers, for the most part on pleasure bent, among whom were some of the wealthiest and most distinguished people of both sides of the Atlantic, felt such perfect confidence in the liner that, even after she was struck and when she was sinking, they could not believe her destruction possible.

But the largest and finest steamship ever built, as she ploughed her way swiftly through the quiet Atlantic, plunged against a monster iceberg which lay stretched out for miles over the sea. Her side was ripped open, her boilers exposed to the icy waters, yet the people were not alarmed.

Not until the twenty lifeboats were put off with their protesting cargoes and the decks were tilted up dangerously did the people really lose their faith. The ship went down filling the quiet night with the cries of horror of the victims plunged to their untimely death.

Four agonizing hours were spent by the survivors suffering unbelievably from exposure and grief until they were picked up by the rescue ship Carpathia, utterly exhausted by their terrible experience. Thrilling tales of bravery and of sacrifice make this one of the most impressive tragedies of modern history. And the fact that the awful loss of life was avoidable by the simple provision of sufficient lifeboats to keep the passengers afloat till help could come, lays heavy indictment upon the modern commercial spirit which willingly takes in its care hundreds of people trusting to sheer luck to ward off danger.

This is the grim lesson to be learned from the tragedy. For the criminal neglect of others, these hundreds of innocent people atoned, and as an everlasting memorial to them will be the stringent laws made and enforced for safeguarding the millions who will trust their lives to the ocean in the future.

In this book the thrilling story is set forth clearly, the facts about the ship and the voyage, the passengers, the pathetic details of the wreck, the first-hand accounts of the survivors. The whole sad story is here.

A s the Titanic drew away from the wharf to begin her only voyage, a common emotion quickened the thousands who were aboard her. Grimy slaves who worked and withered deep down in the glaring heat of her boiler rooms, on her breezy decks men of achievement and fame and millionaire pleasure seekers for whom the boat provided countless luxuries, in the steerage hordes of emigrants huddled in straited quarters but with their hearts fired for the new free land of hope; these, and also he whose anxious office placed him high above allcharged with the keeping of all of their livesthis care-furrowed captain on the bridge, his many-varied passengers, and even the remotest menial of his crew, experienced alike a glow of triumph born of pride in the enormous, wonderful new ship that carried them.

For she was the biggest boat that ever had been in the world. She implied the utmost stretch of construction, the furthest achievement in efficiency, the bewildering embodiment of an immense multitude of luxuries for which only the richest of the earth could pay. The cost of the Titanic was tremendousit had taken many millions of dollarsmany months to complete her. Besides (and best of all), she was practically unsinkable her owners said; pierce her hull anywhere, and behind was a watertight bulkhead, a sure defense to flout the floods and hold the angry ocean from its prey.